Overview

Visual Build Professional is a powerful Windows application that enables developers and build masters to create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software. Visual Build Pro can automate common build tasks such as:

•	Retrieving source code, checking in changes, and labeling in version control systems

•	Setting project versions

•	Building Borland, Microsoft and other source code projects

•	Compiling help projects

•	Creating installers

•	Perform test-driven development

•	Initializing registry settings

•	Writing to text, XML, and INI files

•	Search and replace text in files

•	Performing build operations in parallel

•	Registering type libraries, components, and .NET components

•	Copying, deleting, renaming, listing, and setting file attributes

•	Burning files to CD or DVD

•	Deploying files to or from a web site, FTP server, or network path

•	Securely transferring information using SSL or SSH

•	Creating, updating and extracting from ZIP files

•	Running unit test cases and generating documentation

•	Sending e-mail and newsgroup posts to notify of build success or failure

•	Start and stop Windows services

•	Deploying applications that utilize Microsoft COM+, MSMQ, SQL Server, and IIS

•	Manipulating virtual machines

•	Logging of all build activities and generating log reports

•	Performing automated, scheduled, remote, or continuous builds

•	Much, much more

It executes all those tedious steps that must be performed over and over again, while ensuring that all steps have been successfully completed. A detailed status of each step is displayed during the build and optionally logged to a file. If any step fails, Visual Build Pro pinpoints the error and then continues from the point of failure after the problem has been corrected.

Visual Build Pro provides built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 and Visual Studio 6.0, including Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual J++, Visual J#, SourceSafe, Installer, Borland/CodeGear Delphi, Developer Studio, RAD Studio, C++Builder, JBuilder, and more.

It's easy to put Visual Build Pro to work doing all that manual labor for you so you can focus on more important things. It will help you automate the build process without a huge commitment of time, and it works with the tools you're using today.

Click here to take a tour of the application.